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MURDOCK, Charles William
Service Number: | 527 |
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Enlisted: | 8 January 1916, Adelaide, South Australia |
Last Rank: | Sapper |
Last Unit: | 16th Field Company Engineers |
Born: | Warooka, South Australia, 25 June 1886 |
Home Town: | Warooka, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia |
Schooling: | Warooka Public School |
Occupation: | Labourer/Share farmer |
Died: | Natural causes (tuberculosis), Wallaroo, South Australia, 19 March 1964, aged 77 years |
Cemetery: |
Kadina Cemetery, South Australia Path: 54, Block: 59 |
Memorials: | Warooka and District WW1 Honour Board |
World War 1 Service
8 Jan 1916: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 527, Adelaide, South Australia | |
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9 Jun 1916: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 527, 43rd Infantry Battalion, Enlistment/Embarkation WW1, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '18' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Afric embarkation_ship_number: A19 public_note: '' | |
9 Jun 1916: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 527, 43rd Infantry Battalion, HMAT Afric, Adelaide | |
15 Jan 1917: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sapper, 527, 43rd Infantry Battalion, GSW (right knee - mild) | |
25 Jun 1918: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sapper, 527, 16th Field Company Engineers |
World War 2 Service
17 Apr 1941: | Enlisted Wallaroo, SA |
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Wedding:
On Thursday 13 May 1920 the wedding of Beatrice May Jolly, daughter of Mrs. C. Jolly of Oaklands, to Charles William (Chuck) Murdock, the son of the late Mr. Peter Murdock, of Warooka, took place in the Yorktown Methodist Church. The Rev. C. B. Holmes was the Officating clergyman. The newly married couple left for Sydney on the same day.